Son charged with credit card fraud

Patrick Mikes Jr., was also arraigned last week on three counts of illegally using a financial transaction device. He pleaded not-guilty and his bail was set at $50,000. He was scheduled to be back in court for the fraud case Aug. 13, but that has been rescheduled pending the murder case.

Mikes is accused of using a credit card that didn't belong to him at Great Lakes Crossing on July 26.

Police said the card the 21-year-old used did not belong to his father. It was his younger brother's card.

"Investigators are attempting to reconstruct a timeline of Patrick Mikes Jr.'s whereabouts from Friday, July 27 to Sunday morning, July 29 in order to assist in the recovery of the body," Troy police said in a statement last week.